Well, everyone brought a teacup filled with tea to our recent Twitter poetry party
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Robotics in Verse 4
This completes the series of poems from July’s Twitter poetry party here at TweetSpeak Poetry.
Bring Your Own Tea to the Twitter Party
we’d like you to drink the tea of your choice at the party, and tweet a photo of your favorite tea cup sometime during the proceedings
Robotics in Verse
At last Tuesday’s Twitter poetry party, all poetic prompts were from Robert Pinsky’s Death and the Powers
On the Butterfly’s Blue Wing
For last Thursday’s Twitter poetry party, 10 of us virtually assembled
Partying with the Barbies
We had our poetry jam on Twitter last night, and this time we did a kind of “event” around Marcus Goodyear’s newly published collection, Barbies at Communion: and other poems. So, yes, it was a Barbie-themed party, and it was wild. For the last three poetry jams, we’ve been featuring a new “tool” or Twitter […]
Poems of Complication 2
Following are eight poems from last Tuesday’s poetry jam on twitter, ranging from plainness and fresh strawberries to a celebration of punctuation. Poems of Complication 2 By @mdgoodyear, @llbarkat, @PoemsPrayers, @mxings, @togetherforgood, @cascheller, @mmerubies, @MonicaSharman, @DancinButterfly, @thegypsymama, @TchrEric and @KathleenOverby. Not to mention @shrinkingcamel. Edited by @glynn_poet. Plainness I saw two plain women today. One […]
Poems of Complication 1
Below are the first group of poems coming from our poetry jam on Twitter this past Tuesday. The prompts, courtesy of @mdgoodyear, came from lines from the following: “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket” by Robert Lowell; “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley; “Ode to the Confederate Dead” by Allen Tate; “Ode on […]
Prelude to a Poetic Jam
It always takes a few moments for participants in our poetry jams to collect themselves, eat the last of dinner, calm down, and generally settle themselves as they prepare to jam. Tuesday’s poetry jam was no different, except an errant camel named Bradley, having imbibed a certain volume of wine at dinner, wandered on to […]
The Songs of King Tut 1
This past Thursday, we had another one of our poetry jams on Twitter, this one augmneted by a new technology tool (see the main home page for what it looks like). The prompts from @tspoetry were all taken from Treasures of Tutankhamun, published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Technology, Tut, Twitter, TweetSpeak – we […]
Poems from the Cupboard – 2
Some strange things can happen when you start reading labels in on packages in the kitchen, which were our prompts for the poetry jam last Tuesday on Twitter. Here are eight poems that resulted, and more are coming. Poems from the Cupboard – 2 By @llbarkat, @doallas, @mxings, @PoemsPrayers, @TchrEric, @togetherforgood, @monicasharman, @mmerubies, @KathleenOverby, @lauraboggess and […]
Poems from the Cupboard
For our poetry jam on Twitter this past Tuesday, @tspoetry provided a series of prompts taken from packaging found in the cabinet. Our instructions were to pick up words from the prompts and each other, and make poems. Below is the first of several posts, this one containing six poems. Poems from the Cupboard By […]
Poems from the House of Memory – 1
From wisteria to butterflies, rubies to gardenia, the house of love and life calls in these poems.
The Animals Come to a Party: Poems
Hippos, camels, dragon flies, cake? It must be an animal poems party.
The Walled Garden of Spices and Herbs Poems
Cinnamon, clove, chili, thyme. Exotic poems with herbs and spices.
Poems of the Ruby Moon
Surreal poems on work, love, and the ruby moon.
The Orchards of Desire Poems
Surreal poems with plum sheets, blue pearls, and skirts burning jasmine.